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There is a documentary "Life 2.0" on Netflix (and Youtube) from 2010 that follows around some Second Lifers. One is a hambeast living in her parents' basement who makes a living selling dream homes and clothing as a much thinner avatar. Another is a married man who reveals to his wife that his avatar is an eleven year old girl.
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Three-Phase posted:I remember watching videos of people raiding and making items that would spawn and endless supply of cubes (usually with Bill Cosby's picture on them) that would cause the server to slow down and then crash. Cosbycubes have taken on a whole new meaning in the last decade.
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simosimo posted:Some folks had SL estate holdings, giant malls, giant clothes shops, sometimes spanning over multiple private sims. Baring in mind the private islands ran a few grand a piece to own, there must of been some good money changing hands. The biggest and most famous SL person (circa 2008-9 at least) was Anshe Chung who was a 'real estate' person. She apparently was a millionaire or so. I think goons or some grieving group assaulted a live interview with her; there were floating cocks going across the stage and everything. YouTube it and I'm sure you'll find it, hilarious. I was never really into SL, but I did play it some with the goon presence that was known for being obnoxious at best, and for griefing at worst. The goons had a large area of land that was right next door to some of the land that Anshe Chung old, and she was pissed to have goons as neighbors. Her property values bottomed out because no one wanted to live next door to a 100ft tall robot that was bending over and spreading it's robotic rear end cheeks. I think there was a nightclub inside the anus...
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simosimo posted:The main map is mainland and you can buy plots of land. These plots were extortionate in cost (called rent I believe) or you could go one extra and buy a private Instance (I can't remember the 'in name', maybe a sim?). If you owned or rented land you were free to do whatever. Thanks for the story. This bit where you had to buy land was my problem. I gave myself a russian surname and was going to start talking about communism and how the government should provide for me, but to who? I couldn't find people  I should have signed up for a forums account and got some goon guide to help me.
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Does Second Life still run like absolute garbage no matter what hardware you run it on? Because I remember trying to get into it to take part in the griefing and even with computers that were at the time good spec, it ran horribly Like I even wonder if my i5 with 32 gigs and a 750ti could get 20fps
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Code Jockey posted:Does Second Life still run like absolute garbage no matter what hardware you run it on? The machine I used to all my griefing on 10 years ago was an Athlon X2 and it ran ok unless we were crashing a server. Inevitably you'd get into arguments with landowners and they'd try to convince you that your griefing pegged you as a loser. You'd explain to them that griefing was just a hobby and Second Life was their only life, so they were the loser. Then you go around and around for an hour while they get madder and madder. Probably the best reaction I got out of a landowner was completely accidental. I abandoned a truck with the word "AIDS" on it in some random spot because I was bored with it. An hour or so later I get a pm from a guy named Murky Bjornson bitching about the "garbage truck" I left on his lawn. I still remember his name almost 10 years later because he threw such a fit about it. Whenever I'd make a new account after getting yet another one banned I'd send him a pm to tell him I was still around. This is him:  I should make a new account to see if he's still around. Casimir Radon has a new favorite as of 08:42 on Apr 18, 2016 |
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Code Jockey posted:Does Second Life still run like absolute garbage no matter what hardware you run it on? it still runs pretty lovely, but it mostly ran that way in the past because you'd be downloading poo poo constantly from the area you were in plus like a billion miles in any direction or some poo poo so the game was always chugging because it was downloading poo poo and trying to render it at the same time. they restructured and optimized that a bit better now, so the game only really chugs bad when you're in an area that's real dense with people with their loving 2gb hair models and 4K horse cocks. I logged in the other day because of this thread and poo poo is still insane.
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Buttcoin purse posted:
I usually get them on sale; often times as little as $60. And this is over the course of the past 5 or 6 years, so it really isn't even a noticeable amount of money. I just want all my stuff in one place. It's mostly DVDs ripped to ISOs, VHS tapes I converted to gigantic DV files, and AOL files from 1996. Buttcoin purse posted:Okay here's where I still go for old school web searching techniques: rather than say "OK GOOGLE search for websites with aol links", just search for the words "aol" and "4344" right next to each other. This seems like it might be useful, does it look good? Unfortunately it looks like everyone shared the same keyword list, so it's all stuff I already tried (or posted). Most useful could be "aol://1722:random" which would bring you to a random keyword. Unfortunately, anything with the prefix 1722 does not work since it's just basically telling the AOL software to go to keyword "random" which doesn't work since it just brings up a browser window. If somehow I could sign on to 3.0 or 4.0  Or maybe somehow figuring out what that keyword's "hard" URL was. One funny thing I totally forgot about was after I installed AOL on this Win98 machine was all the poo poo it would leave all over the system. "Real Player" favorites showing up in my web browser, for one. I don't know if that is a combination of AOL's fault and Windows', but I do recall having to delete a whole bunch of crap like that in the Windows 9x days. I also completely forgot about "quick reboot" (hold down shift when rebooting). It rebooted Windows in like 2 seconds instead of going through the whole BIOS stuff. I wonder why they got rid of that. I remember it being really useful. Oyak posted:Getting back to AOL--I remember Heckers Online very dearly...they had a top 10 contest every day, and I think the prize was 10 free hours of AOL or some such nonsense. One time the topic was "New Snapple Flavors," and my friend suggested "Greg Louganis Fruity Punch" using my account. That gem won the #2 spot. Top prize went to "Toe Jambalaya." I am actually still able to get to the old Heckler's keyword.  If I could figure out the number scheme for suffixes in keywords, I could probably access all of the content.
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Anyone know some good SL viewers that have a MAC address changer? I had one years ago but I'm outta the loop now.
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Wall Balls posted:when i played second life new characters would get access to a fursuit right away, so it was real easy to stick a furry head on a stick and parade it around simosimo posted:Anyone know some good SL viewers that have a MAC address changer? I had one years ago but I'm outta the loop now.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Unfortunately it looks like everyone shared the same keyword list, so it's all stuff I already tried (or posted).  quote:If somehow I could sign on to 3.0 or 4.0 I might give it a shot. How do I get an account? I don't have any of their floppy disks or CDs lying around Do you have to pay?quote:"Real Player" favorites showing up in my web browser, for one. I don't know if that is a combination of AOL's fault and Windows', but I do recall having to delete a whole bunch of crap like that in the Windows 9x days. I never installed AOL and I'm pretty sure I ended up with Real Player favorites too, and I guess it makes sense that AOL would bundle Real Player because it was pretty popular at one point. quote:I also completely forgot about "quick reboot" (hold down shift when rebooting). It rebooted Windows in like 2 seconds instead of going through the whole BIOS stuff. I wonder why they got rid of that. I remember it being really useful. Oh yeah I remember that, that was pretty cool! I guess it might not always work since some drivers might not clean up properly and depend on the hardware being reset, and if a feature doesn't work all the time I think getting rid of it is a common move. Also I guess lots of people have machines with BIOSes that don't take long.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:I usually get them on sale; often times as little as $60. And this is over the course of the past 5 or 6 years, so it really isn't even a noticeable amount of money. I just want all my stuff in one place. It's mostly DVDs ripped to ISOs, VHS tapes I converted to gigantic DV files, and AOL files from 1996. I'm currently building something like this. Essentially a Plex media Server. And as with all projects I have a lost of 'feature creep'. Now I want it to also host my zoneminder security system, my :files: downloading, run as my home pfsense router and a few other things. EDIT: For content. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLJSdNYcdpk Humphreys has a new favorite as of 11:19 on Apr 19, 2016 |
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Humphreys posted:I'm currently building something like this. Essentially a Plex media Server. Yeah I use it a lot for Plex/XBMC. Plex you need a decent machine, by the way. So I went with a Core i7 (one from years ago) and considering it's running 24/7 with 14 hard drives, I shudder to think about what that's doing to my electricity bill. I am guessing about 1 dollar a day or so? Buttcoin purse posted:
Well that would be awesome. No, you can just create a free AOL email address on AOL.com. If you can, make it 10 characters or less so it is compatible with old versions. Anyway, download AOL3.0 from oldversion.com and sign on as "Guest" and put that username and password in. If you don't want to go through the trouble of making an account, when I try to sign on as guest on AOL 3.0 thru 5.0, it IMMEDIATELY signs me off saying version no longer supported. So you can mess around with whatever trick you will use to get it to work, and you will know it worked if signing on as guest asks you a username and password. The only "bright ideas" I had so far was to hex edit the software in instances where it said 3.0 and I changed it to 6.0 but that didn't work. If you get this working you are a savior and a genius.
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There was (is?) a SL goon grief vid on youtube which showed up in a favorites or SA old stuff thread which was a new corporate logo reveal the company was holding in SL. It was a virtual conference room with about 25 or 30 avatars standing around and a woman av a the front giving a little speech about the logo before using a control to pull down a curtain with the logo behind it. But some goon found the event, discovered there wasn't security in place or whatever, and put a picture layer between the logo and the curtain of a fat dude with no shirt on. So she gives the spiel and then pulls the curtain down (which had a built in mechanical gear winding noise) to reveal the fat guy picture. I'm probably not doing it justice but it cracked me up. A few of the employees started chuckling and I think the goon or goons were making comments like "Nice logo!". The woman took it in stride and just said Who put that big guy up there? and moved it out of the way. It wasn't some big rage thing but just timed and executed perfectly. Found this site of C64 games emulations. Not sure how much works but there is a shitton of C64 stuff out there. http://legacy.c64g.com/ Finally, messing with printers a little today made me remember just how picky printers and their drivers used to be.
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Sten Freak posted:Found this site of C64 games emulations. Not sure how much works but there is a shitton of C64 stuff out there. Nice  I guess?
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I have an 1541 Ultimate II (which is a hardware drive emulator for that line of computers, yes such a thing exists and can be bought - The 1541 drives are not "dumb" like floppy disk drives most might know from PCs, they're complete computers with CPU&RAM and everything so emulating them is not *that* straightforward) hooked up to my C64 with a tiny, tiny SD-card inserted into that cartridge which houses pretty much any game of relevance (and quite a few not so relevant) which probably have ever been made for that computer. Still kinda blows my mind that such a thing is not only possible, but relatively simple and cheap to do with todays technology. Also comes with an optional and configurable RAM-Expansion which makes GEOS fly. Actually just hooked the machine up to play some Paradroid. E: can't overstate how weird that is. If anyone ever told me I can put these boxes and boxes of disks I had on a tiny chip of plastic not larger than my fingernail not too far in the future, I would have probably not believed them. Police Automaton has a new favorite as of 20:29 on Apr 19, 2016 |
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Yeah I use it a lot for Plex/XBMC. Plex you need a decent machine, by the way. So I went with a Core i7 (one from years ago) and considering it's running 24/7 with 14 hard drives, I shudder to think about what that's doing to my electricity bill. I am guessing about 1 dollar a day or so? I'm using a Core2Duo that I calculated will do everything I need. I don't transcode as all my devices I stream to can play the native resolution over my LAN. Trying to keep this thing as low power as possible...and CHEAP. Free motherboard, case, CPU and RAM. On the other hand, I WAS looking at some nice dual/quad Xeon CPU rack servers for sale last week, drat they were cheap - always wanted a rack mounted system to screw around with at home. I might end up biting the bullet and going with one when this fails. I can always give this test build to one of my friends who is inept at building.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:No, you can just create a free AOL email address on AOL.com. I can't get this to work.. quote:If you don't want to go through the trouble of making an account, when I try to sign on as guest on AOL 3.0 thru 5.0, it IMMEDIATELY signs me off saying version no longer supported. So you can mess around with whatever trick you will use to get it to work, and you will know it worked if signing on as guest asks you a username and password. ..but I did get this to work with AOL 5.0 (I thought I shouldn't start out by going too far back)! So I can get to the username and password prompt, but can't create a free account because their lovely site seems to be busted  Just because I can get a login prompt doesn't mean anything else will work with the version faking, but at least it's a start. At least it doesn't seem like the protocol is vastly different between 5.0 and 6.0.
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Humphreys posted:I'm using a Core2Duo that I calculated will do everything I need. I don't transcode as all my devices I stream to can play the native resolution over my LAN. Trying to keep this thing as low power as possible...and CHEAP. Free motherboard, case, CPU and RAM. I was using an old AMD 64 (3ghz I believe) which I know is pretty old but it really couldn't handle my videos at all for Plex. It worked great for XBMC though. Because XBMC has to run on "higher powered devices" and Plex can run on an iPad 1 without issue. Unless Plex changed a bunch, as far as I knew it did need to transcode a decent amount of stuff (especially if you have stuff in a weird format like all these old SNL VHS rips I have). Buttcoin purse posted:I can't get this to work.. Woah, the login prompt is huge! As you probably saw, they normally sign you right off even before that. I just tried with 5.0 and it booted me right off as soon as I click to sign on to guest or new user! You should be able to register an account at aol.com (remember to try to keep it 8 digits or so; so it will have to be something dumb like zx38975x or something (also it must start with a letter for ~true backwards compatibility~). If you are getting jammed up because it's asking for a cell phone number to SMS a code to, http://receivefreesms.com/ supposedly works very well for that sort of crap. Keep us posted! 
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Woah, the login prompt is huge! As you probably saw, they normally sign you right off even before that. I just tried with 5.0 and it booted me right off as soon as I click to sign on to guest or new user! Yeah, I saw how it normally complains about the version. quote:You should be able to register an account at aol.com Yeah that's what I thought, but it just keeps saying it's "Sorry, we had a problem while checking for that email address." I tried lots of addresses! Eventually I got: quote:unused quote:http://receivefreesms.com/ supposedly works very well for that sort of crap. Nice, thanks!
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Thanks for posting all the AOL screenshots, so much nostalgia for those 1.5-2.0 era icons. I remember I begged my parents to sign up for AOL when I got that issue of Nintendo Power about the NINTENDO POWER SOURCE! on AOL. Our computer was old and wouldn't even load the fancy Diddy Kong images on the site until we upgraded. Antagonist Inc and Hecklers Online were where I spent most of my time. Hecklers had daily comedy top tens and contests you could enter, I think I won enough points to get the infamous Jolt Cola Jockstrap. Antagonist Inc was an elementary school game nerd's dream that openly encouraged dumb console warfare flame battles. You could change your name to ANTTato or whatever and pay 10 bucks to have some bad artist draw you a portrait to go along with your profile. I think ANTStoic was the N64 guy, no idea why my brain retains this poo poo. There's an example of it here: https://web.archive.org/web/19991010051605/http://www.ant.com/antprofiles/mirage.htm I think both were owned by the same company and both made a rather sad effort to try and transition to the world wide web and escape AOL. ANT was far too late, as sites like N64 and IGN were already around and providing amazing tiny screenshots of Blast Corps. Here's a NY Times article about the transition: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...119745492,d.cWw https://web.archive.org/web/19981202170919/http://www.antagonist.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/19981206180027/http://www.hecklersonline.com/
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I am so excited about the pending possibility of Even More Hilariously Old America OnLine things happening!!!Powered Descent posted:This is good stuff, but no discussion of AOL and the Internet would be complete without mentioning The September That Never Ended. Up until that point, it was such a surprising scenario to encounter someone Spamming on a large scale that individual circumstances were memorable events of their own... and there were even, like, NAMES attached to people who Spammed because it was so unusual. Which is so hilarious and sad to think about. kilogram posted:A couple of months ago my friend told me about a PS1 game he used to play 20 years ago, but he could only remember that you played as a caveman with black hair. So I googled "ps1 game caveman black hair" and the right thing came back as the first result. And his hair wasn't even black, it was purple. Hillary Clintons Thong posted:I remember getting one of those lovely 1000 games collections. Absolutely all shareware but I found some cool games on there https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiCFRClJzFo As delightful as it is that their leader is a German man named Victor for some reason Also what the hell is going on, one of the songs on the soundtrack is like halfway to being a Deus Ex outtake (at least until it descends into garbage guitars half-way through), what business does a song this delightful have existing in a 1994 shovelware Wolfenstein 3D clone https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8Vax1r7QRs simosimo posted:SL supported voice comms so the wrasslers would cut the worst cringiest promos you ever heard. Walk down to the ring (with the robotic default walking animation and super bunny hop over the ropes (as the ropes were basically walls and you couldn't walk through them) and then commence in an awful animation battle. I will YouTube later and see if there are some videos. I hope so. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bn7a1cTPmcg
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Tato posted:aol stuff Now you're taking me back. My friend would come over and we'd go to keyword Gamepro and people would ask for help in video games and we'd give fake tips (like those assholes that told you how to revive General Leo, but not nearly that assholish). This was comedy gold to us as 12 year olds, and it was a good use of our free time. Buttcoin purse posted:Nice, thanks! 
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Oh no what have I done? Edit: chat works. Most of the hyperlinks on any of the AOL windows just open up the internal web browser and it sits on a white screen until it times out. I could only find an installer for the UK version of AOL. It seems the chat is universal though because it's mostly Americans. I used an old PowerMac G5 (that this thread prompted me to buy a few months ago) because they never made an intel version of the AOL client. Anyone know where I could download a US version of the client to see if it's more functional? I can only find the crappy AOL Desktop which is not the same thing. I Ended up in some wifeswapping chat room. GutBomb has a new favorite as of 22:35 on Apr 20, 2016 |
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GutBomb posted:Oh no what have I done? You are literally the only person who has run the date of apr 20 2016 through that welcome screen's code and will be always and forever
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The AOL website is so lovely, I turn on developer mode in Firefox and keep seeing it's returning HTTP "420 unused" errors, which doesn't seem to be a real HTTP error code so who knows what it means. This garbage wiki page claims to help you deal with these errors with useful tips like "try another browser" and "do a virus scan". It's not like I'm the first person on the web to have gotten those errors but I haven't seen any useful responses to any of the complaints on the web yet. So has anyone done this recently and if so what browser did you use? It seems like it's actually a modern site, i.e. I wouldn't want to try using a really old version of Internet Explorer like 5.5 which AOL 6 installed for me. It would be cool if I could go "hey 420 is a funny error code  " but this is really pissing me off.
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Haha, wow. Yeah I think they were going for a bit of a die hard spin with that. Middle Eastern "bad guys" was a thing throughout the 80s and 90s. If anything its mellowed out in recent years.
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Uncle at Nintendo posted:Now you're taking me back. Reminds me of a few years back some ebay seller was trying to list a Zelda NES cart for some insane price, because it was gold. Naturally a few guys over at Nintendoage were started askign him questions like 'oh is this the super rare version of the game when you Ganon is purple etc. Made him jump through so many hoops and wasted his time, it was like one of those 419 email chains.
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Imagine finding the files to get Neverwinter Nights on AOL back up and running again. Open the gates!
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Do you remember the dark days of 2007? When a volatile mixture of rampant speculation on virtual assets, unscrupulous and possibly criminal activities by shady individuals, and little to no regulation or enforcement, led to a collapse of major financial institutions that required external intervention to stabilize the entire economy? Oh wait, you thought I was talking about America? No, no. I'm talking about Second Life. The Wall Street Journal posted:Linden officials won't say how much money has been lost, but a run on another virtual bank in August may have cost Second Life depositors an estimated $750,000 in actual money. The story of the collapse of SL's private banking market fascinates me still, nearly a decade later. It's certainly my favorite crazy story from that dumb game, even more then Cosby cubes and attacking Anse Chung with flying dicks during a real media interview. It's amazing how much money people will throw at lovely computer games.
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thathonkey posted:i almost bought a powermac g5 after their low used prices got brought up in the thread until i realized i have no use for it Shoot iBook G4 and PowerBook G4 laptops are hella cheap Also Macintosh garden can get you started on Mac software, albeit a bit greyish
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http://youvegotmail.warnerbros.com The original promo website for you've got mail is still online. They just added it to prime now if you want to see some primo late 90s product placement.
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